All is not well in the land of smart city planning, as the latest major planned development from Google’s sister company…
Month: June 2019
A week in security (June 10 – 16)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we revealed to readers the mindset of security pros as to why they lack confidence in…
Trolls abuse Twitter Lists to collate their targets
I’ve been using Twitter for more than a decade. And one of its features that I find valuable is Lists. Turns…
Adware and PUPs families add push notifications as an attack vector
Some existing families of potentially unwanted programs and adware have added browser push notifications to their weapons arsenal. Offering themselves up…
MegaCortex continues trend of targeted ransomware attacks
MegaCortex is a relatively new ransomware family that continues the 2019 trend of threat actors developing ransomware specifically for targeted attacks…
Apple iOS 13 will better protect user privacy, but more could be done
Last week, Apple introduced several new privacy features to its latest mobile operating system, iOS 13. The Internet, predictably, expressed doubt,…
Maine governor signs ISP privacy bill
Less than one week after Maine Governor Janet Mills received one of the nation’s most privacy-protective state bills on her desk,…
Cybersecurity pros think the enemy is winning
There is a saying in security that the bad guys are always one step ahead of defense. Two new sets of…
A week in security (June 3 – 9)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we rounded up some leaks and breaches, reported about Magecart skimmers found on Amazon CloudFront CDN,…
Video game portrayals of hacking: NITE Team 4
Note: The developers of NITE Team 4 granted the blog author access to the game plus DLC content. A little while…